"But facts are facts, and if we..." - Quote by William James
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
“Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.”
“Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.”
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“The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.”
“All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.”
“Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.”